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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Top GLB Fiction (actually Delany)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221438.3951@spdcc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:14:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec22.221438.3951
- References: <1992Dec22.024227.25596@spdcc.com> <1992Dec22.124058.3613@nic.csu.net>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <1992Dec22.124058.3613@nic.csu.net> hsu@walnut.sfsu.edu writes:
- >Steve Dyer:
- >>
- >> I think that almost all current SF/fantasy writing is simply TV for
- >> the semi-literate, and Delany's work in this genre hasn't made me
- >> change my mind.
- >
- >Well which of Delany's books have you read, Steve? Do tell.
-
- _The Motion of Light in Water_, which is really wonderful. He really
- should write a follow on to his autobiography. The man _can_ write; I
- just don't find the fiction he writes very interesting. I found both
- "Stars in My Pocket..." and "Dhalgren" to be impenetrable and unrewarding.
- Boring.
-
- I didn't mean to say that Delany's attempts are semi-literate, or that
- reading and liking his stuff isn't proof that you have some reading facility.
- It's that his efforts in the genre don't redeem the field in general for me.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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